Brains and Eggs: Sunday Funnies

We put together a cartoon collection about Elon Musk's 'awkward gesture': https://t.co/e5Us1QKaNz

This one is by Oliver Ploux.#ElonMusk #nazisalute pic.twitter.com/u8KrtiIxZ6
— Cartoon Movement (@cartoonmovement) January 22, 2025

The future of the next generation is being stolen due to the misconception of endless growth on our finite planet. The Earth is a closed system for materials. "We are stealing the future, selling it in the present, and calling it GDP" - Paul Hawkenhttps://t.co/DLIGn4uJnd
— Peter Dynes (@PGDynes) January 12, 2024

Medicare for All#SocialistSunday pic.twitter.com/AbBHq010MV
— screamschildrenremoved (@PDiddie) April 13, 2025

This cartoon was drawn in 2009. pic.twitter.com/nwDtBVjU2M
— Friendly Neighborhood Comrade (@SpiritofLenin) July 27, 2024

most of what we fight over is made up... pic.twitter.com/T6UubOBNJ6
— వంశీ చెల్లెపాటి (@Vamshi_C13) November 29, 2025

The Bullock Museum completed a five-year project in December to make all 16,000 years of Texas history encapsulated within its walls available to visitors in both English and Spanish.https://t.co/hGF86uGJx9
— KUT Austin (@KUT) February 8, 2024

If you zoom in on this 1873 map of Houston, you'll see all sorts of interesting stuff, including the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which, because it formed a natural turning basin for boats to turn around, was the primary reason the Allen Brothers, John Kirby… pic.twitter.com/yEZ8x47u7r
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) February 6, 2025

Houston, Texas, and US blog roll

Texas Standard

Texas restaurant owners sounding alarm over immigrant labor shortages - Industry groups are coming together to push for legislation around work permits — and beyond.
Futurism

Concern Grows That AI Is Damaging Users’ Cognitive Abilities - "The brain didn't fall asleep, but there was much less activation in the areas corresponding to creativity and to processing information." The post Conce...
Al Jazeera English

Israeli sexual violence helping push Palestinians from West Bank: Report - NGO finds at least 16 cases of conflict-related sexual violence attributed to Israeli settlers and soldiers.
Raw Story

Shamed Greg Bovino resurfaces with praise for Hitler-loving racist X account - One of the key figures in President Donald Trump's mass deportation plan openly cheered a blog post by a known anti-Semitic and racist social media accou...
The Week

4 tips for saving on a summer road trip - Gas prices are soaring, but you can still spare your wallet
Wolf Street

Pending Home Sales Still in the Deepfreeze, Drop in the West & Midwest, Tick up in the South & Northeast - Down by 35% from 2021, by 30% from 2019, and by 31% from 2018. The housing market is in the 4th year of this relentless mess.
Houston Public Media

Texas Medical Board sanctions three doctors for delayed care that led to the deaths of two pregnant women - Porsha Ngumezi and Nevaeh Crain died during miscarriages in Texas. The state's medical board ruled that the doctors' substandard care led to the deaths and...
Mediaite

JUST IN: JD Vance’s Trip to Pakistan for Iran Peace Talks Delayed - JD Vance's flight to Pakistan for fresh peace talks on the Iran war has not taken off as scheduled, raising new speculation over a peace deal with the re...
memeorandum

Graham releases blueprint for GOP immigration enforcement funding plan (Jordain Carney/Politico) - Jordain Carney / Politico: *Graham releases blueprint for GOP immigration enforcement funding plan* — Senate Budget Chair Lindsey Graham unveiled a fis...
Salon.com

The 6 kitchen tools I use every day - What a food writer actually uses to make dinner
Deadline Politics

CNN To Air Matt Friend Comedy Special On Eve Of White House Correspondents’ Dinner - Comedian Matt Friend, known for his satire and impressions of Donald Trump and other political figures, will headline a comedy special from Washington, D.C...
El Paso Matters

Opinion: El Paso purposefully planned for a future with water - Water shortages in Corpus Christi and Pflugerville highlight how El Paso’s decades-long investment in governance, conservation and diversified supply ha...
San Antonio Current

Beloved San Antonio sandwich shop the Station Cafe reopens in new location - An old Southtown standby has new digs. After shuttering temporarily to relocate, the Station Cafe reopened Monday at 1010 S. Flores St., mere blocks fro...
NORML

Minnesota: Far Fewer Young People Consuming Cannabis, Survey Finds - [image: young man rejects the offer of a lit joint][image: young man rejects the offer of a lit joint]“These findings ought to reassure lawmakers that ca...
ArcaMax

Willfully Blind: American Universities Continue to Squirm Under Stefanik's Anti-Semitism Spotlight - Congressional hearings aren't known for generating Must-See TV, so the rare exceptions tend to be notable. Attorney Joseph Welch's takedown of the demagogi...
Capital & Main

Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Women Hard — A Year Later, Unemployment Is Up - Losses in government positions are undermining a critical engine of economic mobility for the Black middle class. The post Federal Job Cuts Hit Black Wom...
The Hill

Are you ready for universal Trump pardons? - President Trump has reportedly boasted that he will issue pre-emptive presidential pardons to hundreds, if not thousands, of administration staff and offic...
Eschaton

Warfighters - Whiskey Pete announced that flu vaccines would no longer be mandatory. Life aboard the big boats is going to be great. I do believe that (most) Americans h...
Election Law Blog

Chad Mizelle, Former Trump DOJ Official, Wants Trump to Issue an Executive Order Purporting to Return Parts of Virginia to Washington DC in Effort to to Fight Virginia’s Potential Democratic Gerrymander - Over at Fox News: It is obvious to anyone paying attention that, rather than an effort to “restore fairness” or “level the playing field,” the Virginia g...
Undernews

Gambling addicted states - *WalletHub - *With the gambling industry generating a record $78.7 billion in revenue last year, ... WalletHub has released its report on the 2026’s Most G...
Mediagazer

OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs (Digiday) - Digiday: *OpenAI enables cost-per-click ads inside ChatGPT, setting bids at between $3 and $5 per click, in addition to CPMs* — The platform that can f...
Axios

Scoop: Top U.S. cyber agency doesn't have access to Anthropic's powerful hacking model - The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency doesn't have access to Anthropic's powerful new Mythos Preview model, even though some other governm...
SCOTUSblog

Justice Thomas’ wrong-headed attack on progressivism - Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and...
Common Dreams

April’s Beige Book Reveals Trump’s War in Iran Is Devastating Economy At Home - The Federal Reserve released its April 2026 Beige Book, which provides economic commentary from each of the 12 Federal Reserve Districts. In this month’s...
Krebs on Security

‘Scattered Spider’ Member ‘Tylerb’ Pleads Guilty - A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group "Scattered Spider" has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated iden...
Countercurrents

Two Palestinians, Including 14-Year-Old Boy, Shot and Killed by Israeli Settlers in West Bank; Second Child Killed Within Hours - Occupied West Bank (QNN)- Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, were shot and killed by Israeli settlers on Tuesday in the village of Al-Mughayyir...
NPR's Health Shots

Want to lighten your mental load? First, let go of these gender myths - "Men can't see the mess." "Women are better at chores." These myths position women to take on more emotional thinking, says researcher Leah Ruppanner. She ...
Earthworks

Workers Pay the Price for Dangerous Tailings Dams - Recent failures at mine waste facilities highlight the importance of protecting workers’ rights and safety. The post Workers Pay the Price for Dangerous ...
Seeing the Forest

A Starmer-Mandelson Scenario - If you are up-to-date on the Starmer/Mandelson scandal, skip to below. US readers: When Trump was about to take office (the second time) Prime Minister Sta...
The Verge

Apple TV has another busy summer of sci-fi with Silo season 3 in July - Over the last few years Apple TV has established itself as a force in sci-fi, and that trend looks to continue through 2026. Up next: the post-apocalyptic ...
naked capitalism

Half of AI Health Answers Are Wrong Even Though They Sound Convincing – New Study - AI appears to perform no better than astrology, yet even the author of this critical piece defends its use in medicine.
Glasstire

Van Gogh’s Smashing Light - Much has been said about our dear Vincent van Gogh’s mental illness, particularly by my students. I say “our” because he’s everyone’s favorite misunderst...
Daily Howler

SORROW, PITY, OUTRIGHT FEAR: Somewhere ages and ages hence... - *TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2026* *...we may be a more mature people:* We'll start by quoting Gretta Conroy, from the famous Joyce story, *The Dead*: *“He died ...
Bonddad

March retail spending: including or excluding gasoline makes all the difference - - *by New Deal democrat* Consumer spending is about 70% of the economy, and retail sales is our first wide measure of that spending. This morning’s ...
Idavox

Plaza México Businesses Demand State Relief Due to ICE Surge’s Severe Economic Impacts - We know that Trump & Co. couldn’t care less about how much of a hardship... The post Plaza México Businesses Demand State Relief Due to ICE Surge’s Sever...
Scheerpost.com

Death By Black Excellence - By Sol Elias, Black Agenda Report. Misogynoir, a term meant to name the specific violence against poor and working-class Black women is now being used as a...
First Draft

Pushback Day In Virginia - It’s a pivotal moment in Trump’s redistricting gambit to stay unimpeached. State Senator L. Louise Lucas is only too pleased to be one face of FAFO.
Political Wire

Quote of the Day - “I’m not sure why after ten years of covering this president, the American media still cannot understand, when President Trump says he’s gonna do something...
Democracy Now!

Animal Rights Activists Target Wisconsin Facility Accused of Breeding Dogs for Medical Experiments - Police fired tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullets at hundreds of animal rights activists in Wisconsin on Saturday as they attempted to rescue about 2,...
Rewire

Abortion Debate Plays Out in Georgia Supreme Court Race - A Planned Parenthood-affiliated super PAC has pledged $750,000 in ads to two candidates framed as being more pro-choice than their incumbent opponents. ...
The Progressive Wing

4/21 News Roundup & Open Thread - Young Americans are among those most threatened by AI, climate change, and an economic and political system dominated by billionaires. That is why, now m...
Techdirt.

CBS Hosting Dinner Praising Trump And His Love Of The First Amendment - Talk about pathetic. CBS has announced that the now-Larry Ellison owned network will be hosting a lavish dinner this week praising Donald Trump and his (no...
Texas Observer

Making Coffee with a Candle—and Other Notes from a Cuba Gone Dark - My grandmother sent me a photo last week. In it, a white candle burns inside a metal bucket. Balanced on the bucket’s rim are the cast-iron grates from t...
Space City Weather

Houston to see mostly manageable rains today and Wednesday before a weekend warmup - In brief: In today’s update we take a look at increasing shower activity today and Wednesday before our rains mostly dry up. That will leave us with a more...
Vox

Why millennials are feral for chicken Caesar wraps - For most Americans who have ever eaten lunch, a chicken Caesar wrap is simply a tortilla-wrapped tangle of lettuce, grilled chicken, and creamy dressing. B...
Rallblog

Wild Things | DeProgram with Ted Rall and Jamarl Thomas - LIVE 9:00 am Eastern time, Streaming Anytime: Editorial cartoonist Ted Rall and political analyst Jamarl Thomas deprogram you from mainstream media every...
Mother Jones

As Fuel Prices Soar, Climate Leaders Urge Democrats to Tie Clean Energy to Affordability - This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Democrats should get louder in champi...
Mondoweiss

‘I’ve become stronger:’ Leqaa Kordia on life after ICE detention - [image: PYM Dallas members welcome Leqaa Kordia following her release. (Photo: Stephanie Drenka)]One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kord...
The Guardian (U.S. news)

Trump’s Federal Reserve chair pick to face lawmakers at key confirmation hearing – US politics live - The hearing marks a key hurdle Kevin Warsh must overcome in order to succeed Jerome Powell when his term ends on 15 May *Two regional officials said on T...
Daily Cartoonist

CSotD: On Beyond Clownwashing - I’ve been feeling sorry for Tom Tomorrow and other deep-digging satirists lately, in part because the real world is becoming so ridiculous that it doesn’t ...
Earth 911

Guest Idea: Stormwater Runoff into the Atlantic and the Atlantification of the Arctic - In March 2026, the Arctic’s winter sea ice reached one of the lowest levels ever... The post Guest Idea: Stormwater Runoff into the Atlantic and the Atl...
Dorf on Law

The De-Platformer’s Dilemma—John Eastman Edition (Guest Post By 1L Milo Ratner) - In a 2008 paper titled “Conspiracy Theories,” Cass R. Sunstein and Adrien Vermeule described the key dilemma involved in a government responding to a co...
Skeptophilia

Wibbly-wobbly... - Have I told you my favorite joke? Heisenberg and Schrödinger are out for a drive, and a cop pulls them over. The cop says to Heisenberg, who was driving, "...
The Smirking Chimp

Why Consumers are F*cked -
Media Lens

A Lefty Progressive Goes To The Tank Museum - I was born in the south-east of England 17 years after the end of the Second World War, the most destructive conflict in human history. As a child, the 17-...
Off The Kuff

A brief look at the runoffs - The Lite Guv runoff is the highest profile statewide race on the ballot in May for Democrats. After busting through turnout expectations for the party prim...
Slate

Help! The Stunt My Sisters Pulled at a Family Party Is Making Me Rethink Their Invites to My Wedding - Wherever they go, chaos follows.
San Antonio Report

Family legacy continues with 3 generations serving buñuelos at NIOSA - A family tradition that began in '67 at NIOSA continues with sisters Patti Anderson and Sharon Doyle volunteering at the buñuelos booth. -------------------...
Crooked Media

J. Edgar Boozer - The post J. Edgar Boozer appeared first on Crooked Media.
Novara Media

Hungary’s PM-Elect Says He’d Arrest Netanyahu Despite Inviting Him to Visit - Hungary’s prime minister-elect has suggested he would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he entered the country – even though he invited the Israeli leader to vi...
Courthouse News

Preserved for billions of years, organic compounds found on Mars - The findings suggest Mars can preserve the kind of molecules that could point to proof that life once existed on the planet.
ProPublica

The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan - The post The Counterterrorism Czar Without a Counterterrorism Plan appeared first on ProPublica.
Grist

How deep-red Utah helped launch a portable plug-in solar movement - Since Utah passed a law last year, 30 more states and the District of Columbia have drafted similar bills.
High Country News

How New Mexico is ‘building a forest’ by solving a seedling shortage - A Q&A with the New Mexico Reforestation Center director about what it takes to replant a burn scar post-wildfire. The post How New Mexico is ‘building ...
Infidel753

Image round-up for 21 April 2026 - More pictures from my collection -- click any image for full size. [For the link round-up, click here. For the intelligent design video, click here.] ...
Counterpunch

U.S. Imperialism Enters a New Stage - Donald Trump’s rhetoric and actions against Iran, Venezuela and Cuba over the last year have few parallels in modern history. They have to be seen as mar...
jobsanger

A Global Recession Is Likely If The War Continues Another 3 Months -
Informed Comment

Did Iran ever Really Have a Nuclear Weapons Program? - Israel regularly claims that Iran will build an atomic bomb any day now—a big lie that has been repeated countless times without evidence.
OpEd News

Two Kinds of Victory: The Risks Behind Virginia's Redistricting Dilemma - As voters head to the polls on April 21 to vote on redistricting, the question isn't just political. It's ethical.
World Socialist Web Site

“We do have the money to pay for education. Unfortunately, it’s been funneled away to pay for wars”: California Little Lake teachers walk out - The strike by more than 200 Little Lake educators is part of a broader rebellion by teachers and school workers against poverty wages, healthcare cuts, ove...
Portside

Chavez-DeRemer Stepping Down As Labor Secretary - Chavez-DeRemer Stepping Down As Labor Secretary Stephanie Mon, 04/20/2026 - 22:49
Popular Resistance

War On Free Speech Expands To Detention, Sanctions Of Individuals - The plutocratic power structure in the United States is clamping down on our right to know and to dissent by illegally detaining individuals who speak ou...
Debunking Christianity

My Article Appeared in "Free Inquiry" Recently. - My article was published on how to change the minds of believers. You can see the pic here, and follow this link to read it: How to Change the Minds of Be...
Ian Welsh

Russo-Ukraine War: Strategic Pause - ~by Sean Paul Kelley Amidst the chaos, propaganda, and war porn that is our attack on Iran news of the Russo-Ukrainian war has been hard to come by. One th...
Workers World

Hezbollah’s resistance prevails - [image: Hezbollah’s resistance prevails] What is clear from the recent ceasefire in Lebanon is that Hezbollah has survived, regrouped and rearmed. This is ...
Brad Blog

Week 8: Iran War Lies Continue from Sundowning Gaslighter-in-Chief: 'BradCast' 4/20/2026 - The Strait is open! (It's closed.) We're talking very powerfully! (They're not.) We're winning! (Nope.) Also, Greenland! Okay. Too much nonsense to make se...
Alternet

The Pope is winning his feud with Trump — because it's deeper than politics: analysis - President Donald Trump’s feud with Pope Leo XIV is “deeper than politics,” wrote academic Walter Russell Mead on Monday — and that depth helps explain th...
Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters

While RFK, Jr's anti-trans policy is struck down in federal court, gay father 'handles his business' against influencer's attack on his family - Ryley Niemi, a far-right influencer (right) tricked a gay couple into being interviewed and then began peppering them with questions while implying that t...
See You In 2020

To bring the post-Covid generation to Marxism, we must fully break from the “academic leftist” model - The starkest contradiction between academic leftism, and the reality of today’s conditions for the youth, is how academia itself increasingly cannot off...
Antiwar.com

Iran’s 10-point Plan Is Still a Workable Basis for Negotiations - The US government under Donald Trump has twice used disingenuous negotiations with Iran to provide cover for attacking it, in June 2025 and again before la...
Ballot Access News

Betty Yee Withdraws from California Gubernatorial Race - On April 20, Betty Yee, former California Controller, dropped out of the gubernatorial race. See this story. She did not endorse any other Democrat but sai...
Progressive.org

On Chicago’s Trains, Homeless Outreach Workers Meet People Where They Are - For too many Chicagoans, public transit is one of the only accessible places to shelter during the brutal winter.
The AltWorld

Markets prematurely may celebrate, but the next phase likely will be more, bigger war - Trump’s tariff war will be seen in retrospect to be peanuts to the threatened strike on China’s […] The post Markets prematurely may celebrate, but the n...
Claytoonz

Yes! - Read the blog at my Substack, and please subscribe. Support your local cartoonist: If you want to support the cartoonist, please donate through PayPal to “...
Crooked Timber

Occasional paper: Inconstant moon - I said a while back that nobody’s going to Mars any time soon. Which is true. But that doesn’t mean Mars isn’t interesting! Mars is very interesting. So to...
Angry Bear

Updating the long leading indicators: per capita real retail spending and real spending on goods - – by New Deal democrat So much of the changes to the economy has been dictated by the whims of the White House that it has not made much sense to through...
CultureMap Houston

Self-driving Tesla Robotaxi service now rolling on Houston streets - Tesla’s Robotaxi service has taken to the streets of Houston. In a *brief statement* Saturday, April 18 on its X social media account, Tesla Robotaxi says ...
The Texas Signal

Outsourced To Kids: Childhood Language Brokering in Texas - Texas is home to 14 percent of the total population designated as "Limited English Proficiency.” That often leaves children interpreting complex or emotion...
The Daily Poster

Memos Show John Roberts Became The Activist He Warned About - Reagan-era “shadow papers” show Roberts denouncing judicial overreach — before using the Supreme Court’s shadow docket to fast-track corporate wins on clim...
Socialist Alternative

Iran War: “Ceasefire” Deadline Approaches - With 24 hours left of the “ceasefire” with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair deal” and again threatening to “kn...
Independent Political Report

Libertarian Party Organizers Seek Tellers for 2026 National Convention - Organizers of the Libertarian Party’s 2026 national convention are seeking volunteers to serve as members of the teller team responsible for overseeing v...
slacktivist

You can be the president, I’d rather be the … - Leo says that "peace and unity" are Good Things. Donald Trump (correctly) perceives this as an attack on him personally.
Consortium News

DNC Winners: Ethnic Cleansing & Genocide - A panel named the Middle East Working Group gummed up all efforts to align the DNC with the views of most of the party’s voters, writes Norman Solomon. B...
LareDOS

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport - The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 y...
TalkLeft

Monday Open Thread - Finally, a new open thread, all topics welcome. It's good to know you are never too old to work for DOJ, even in a position which requires the use of your...
The Root

Proof Trump’s Plan to Dismantle the Black Middle Class Is Actually Working - Trump claimed to be the best president for Black folks since Abraham Lincoln, but his recent track record tells a totally different story. Read more...
Trivial Knot

Trolleyology bad - In my last post, I offhandedly disparaged the Trolley Problem as a serious thought experiment. Let me elaborate. Any philosophical thought experiment conta...
Project Censored

Muckrakers & Media Freedom: Celebrating the Izzy Award - This week on the program, we celebrate Independent Media and press freedom with Izzy Fest 2026 and the 18th annual Izzy Award named after the legendary m...
Sludge

The Shell Game Donors Use to Hide Their Identities - Party leaders’ super PACs are increasingly routing contributions through nonprofits first, so donor names disappear before the money shows up in public fil...
The NM Political Report

“First Endorser” Martin Heinrich is wading into primaries to fix the Democratic Party from the bottom up - Santa Fe – On a chilly Friday night in late February, a steady line of cars made their way up Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road. Past the art galleries and J...
Duck of Minerva

What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate - I have a new open-access article out in Global Studies Quarterly, “What’s at Stake in the Indigenous Empire Debate,” in which I argue against historian Pek...
WhoWhatWhy

Carney Paints US as Threat to Canada, Offers Model for Others to Cut the Cord - [image: Donald Trump, Mark Carney, Oval Office] Highlighting the increasing isolation the US faces because of Donald Trump's actions, Canadian Prime Minist...
The Conversation

1914 Ludlow Massacre took lives of 25 miners and family members during bitter strike for fair wages and conditions - The Ludlow strike was one of the most bitter and violent in U.S. labor history.
Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas

If Civics Isn’t a Discipline, What Is? A Case for Policy Studies, by Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D. - *If Civics Isn’t a Discipline, What Is? A Case for Policy Studies* *by* *Angela Valenzuela, Ph.D.* *April 19, 2026* *By any measure, we are witnessing ...
Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton

The Christian Nationalist Schism: Fascist Religion at the End of Empire - The fight between MAGA and the pope is a preview of something much larger and more dangerous
Campaign for America's Future

I Want You to March With Me This May Day - I invite you to march with me this May Day, then organize to win elections and protect our right to vote. Together, we can prove the power of organized peo...
Liberation News

Exposing five lies about Lebanon’s resistance - The U.S. & Israel seek to turn Lebanon into a vassal state. But the Lebanese people are determined to keep their independence and dignity.
Field Negro

Green light red light in the Strait. - *"War, what is it good for? Absolutely, nothing" ~ Edwin Starr~ * Before Trump's war, also known as Operation Epstein, most Americans would have thoug...
DeSmogBlog

Who Funds Nigel Farage? Mapping His Millions - Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is the highest-paid Member of Parliament. In less than two years as the MP for Clacton, Farage has racked up £2 million in ...
Edinburg Politics

Landmark state law led by Sen. Juan Hinojosa and Rep. Terry Canales to bring $160 million biomedical research center to Edinburg, Mayor Omar Ochoa reveals in State of the City Address - One of the many results of a landmark state law, led in 2013 by Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, and Rep. Terry Canales, D-Edinburg, will be a $160 million b...
Church and State

Trump will be gone before November 3, 2026!! - Continuing under Trump would push the gutless GOP toward a broader conflict, with many nations armed with nuclear weapons.
FrontBurner – D Magazine

Surprise shows coming to Dallas this weekend - Is it really a weekend in Dallas without some pop-up shows? No, it is not. But we’re hearing about two this weekend that you should definitely put on your ...
Lowering the Bar

Cat Blamed for Crime - [image: ai-generated image of a cat lineup]Unsuccessfully.
The Militant

End Washington’s war for plunder in the Middle East - The Donald Trump administration is alternating between arrogant threats to restart bombing and flattery of current Iranian officials — calling them “smarte...
Bracing Views

The Social Media Echo Chamber - When the Rabbit Hole Becomes an Information Silo BILL ASTORE APR 16, 2026 If you’ve spent time on social media, you know it can be quite unsocial. Profane...
Alas, a Blog

Centrist Dems Pre and Post Election - When Kamala Harris lost the election, a lot of centrist Democrats blamed progressives (as they did when Hillary Clinton lost in 2016), and it’s been a cons...
Black Agenda Report

Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 - Black Agenda Radio April 17, 2026 Authors Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley bareditors Fri, 04/17/2026 - 02:48 Black Agenda Radio · Black Agenda ...
MintPress News

Not Neutral: Inside The UAE’s Shadow Role In the US-Israeli War on Iran - Behind claims of neutrality, the UAE has emerged as a key player in the war on Iran — providing surveillance, hosting operations, enabling strikes from i...
Greg Palast

Mr. Colbert, I’m not laughing anymore - Dear Mr. Colbert, your take-down of Trump’s #2 at FEMA, Gregg Phillips, who claims he was teleported to a Waffle House was so hilarious I spit my milk out ...
Environment Texas

STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters - U.S. Senate vote puts beloved wilderness area at risk of toxic pollution The post STATEMENT: Congress overturns 20-year mining ban near Boundary Waters a...
Dissent Magazine

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers - The alleged sexual violence committed by Cesar Chavez cannot be understood as the failing of a single charismatic leader. It unfolded within a patterned ...
Discourse

Tucker Carlson Is Not Your Anti-War Ally - Liberals are hyping Carlson's opposition to the Iran War. All they’re doing is boosting an unrepentant, pathologically dishonest bigot.
Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball

The Places We’re Watching as Virginia Votes on a Pro-Democratic House Map - Next week, Virginia will vote on a ballot measure that would, if passed, allow Democrats to impose a gerrymander--if the state Supreme Court doesn't inte...
Ecosophia

Situationism: The Art of the Dérive - Our explorations of Situationism, that eccentric twentieth-century offspring of a drunken amour between avant-garde European art and radical post-Marxist p...
Progressives Chat

Kim Iversen Interviews Marjorie Taylor Green - *Kim Iversen* welcomed former congresswoman *Marjorie Taylor Green* (R–Georgia #14). This is a worthwhile interview. It was published to YouTube Sunda...
nonsite.org

Bonnard and Escapism - Violently, but also with his intellect. Still life artists in the same great easel painting tradition—Chardin, Cezanne—had pondered what kinds of logic rel...
Texas Freedom Network

SBOE preliminarily approves social studies TEKS, reading list - Your April SBOE Rundown Texas Freedom Network, our Teach the Truth coalition, Texas Rising students, and other education advocates organized a strong, un...
The Grayzone

UK seeks to jail Palestine Action for ‘terrorism’ amid UK media blackout - Six Palestine Action activists face a retrial after being acquitted in February following over a year in solitary confinement. If convicted, the six Pale...
Web of Debt

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars: Iran and the Bankers’ Endgame - “The powers of financial capitalism had another far reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to ...
The Greanville Post

Rescuing TGP from a severe attack. - This option only applies to Single Post Template Styles 1 & 2. if you wish to hide Featured Images from automatically appearing on all posts, you can selec...
Unlimited Hangout

The Praxian Genocidal Kill Chain – Part 1 - In this two-part article series, Iain Davis examines how a class of Silicon Valley oligarchs have set about destabilising the planet in order to achieve ...
Mike Flugennock: Political Cartoons

Capitalism: 404 - 12×18 inch medium-res color .jpg image, 1.1mb When I first got the word going around that the Citibank building in Dubai had been bombed, my first thought ...
Texas Environmental News

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Non-violent grassroots reform and democracy

Walmart Crime Report March 2026 - Walmart had another eleven more shootings in March of 2026, with one of them fatal and at least one more injury, which is few deaths or injuries than us...
alicublog

FRIDAY 'ROUND-THE-HORN: ANOTHER ONE JUST LIKE THE OTHER ONE EDITION. - *The original orchestrations are grand, but this is just irresistible.* Pam Bondi’s departure is meaningless — Tubby has a huge crabbucket of equally loat...
Dispatches from the Underclass

“They’re Demonic” – Israel Runs the Gaza Playbook in Lebanon (w/ Rania Khalek) - I was on Bad Faith Podcast with Briahna Joy Gray to talk about Israel’s war on Lebanon, check it out:
The Socialist

Roger Williams Net Worth 2026: The $74.66M Auto Dealer’s Fortune - Table of Contents The Foundation: Williams Auto Group’s Enduring $34.2 Million Value and Legacy Real Estate Empire: A $33 Million Portfolio Rooted Deep in ...
The Rag Blog

JAN LANCE / RETIREES / Senior Solidarity - By Jan Lance /The Rag Blog / April 2, 2026 Protecting Retirement Now and for the FutureThe Texas Alliance for Retired Americans (TARA) wants you! Jan Lance...
Consent Factory, Inc.

No Robots - This will be a very brief update on my health and legal battles for subscribers. There won’t be any opining on Iran or Epstein or Trump or anyone or anythi...
The Mind Unleashed

Форекс индексы: Твой ключ к диверсификации и прибыли! - Форекс Индексы: Трейдинг с Умом! Арбитраж – это стратегия, при которой трейдер пытается извлечь прибыль из разницы в ценах на один и тот же актив на разных...
Avedon's Sideshow

Well you know it's a shame and a pity - The Rising Son Records account (Arlo Guthrie?) on Facebook posted this photo and said, in the first person, that in September of 2013, "As I watched the cl...
Land Destroyer

American/Ukrainians Caught Arming Militants in Myanmar and the US Dirty War on China - *March 20, 2026* (NEO - Brian Berletic) - India’s national media reported the arrest by Indian security services of US mercenary Matthew VanDyke and six ...
Dissident Voice

Tulsi Gabbard and Joe Kent - Frank had just finished listening to online news about how US government officials viewed the Israel-United States war of aggression launched against Ira...
Democracy Chronicles

War Pigs: Black Sabbath Meets the Evangelical Iran War Supporters - One day this insanity that’s been repeating itself can come to an end. Will it start with you? Will it start with me?
Reading the Pictures

Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and the Blowback - A round‑up of pictures that cut through the spin and highlight the fallout, from Iran to the home front. The post Caught My Eye: Trump, the Bomber, and t...
Two Party Opera

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WAWG Blog

Are Election Safeguards Sufficient for Our 2026/2028 General Elections? - While no system can be 100?% immune to attempts at manipulation, the combination of legal requirements, bipartisan procedural rules, and independent audi...
Second Nexus

U.S. Hockey Star Slams White House For Sharing AI-Doctored Video Of Him Insulting Canadians - There's a saying about laying down with dogs. Or, you're known by the company you keep. NHL player and Team USA member Brady Tkachuk is learning that les...
Screwston Antifascist Committee

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Targets Screwston Anti-Fascists For Investigation - BREAKING Our organization is being targeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who, on Friday, February 6th, released a public statement calling us “dera...
Moron Majority

After Disastrous Bondi Hearing, Stetson University College of Law Issues Statement - Pam Bondi received her Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law in 1990. The Florida law school fears for its reputation after Bondi’s un...
Green Pages News

Appetites - You cannot stop smoking although you know it is killing your lungs. You cannot stop eating although you know it is killing your heart. You cannot stop prod...
Free & Equal

How Do We Empower The Next Generation? w/ Ron Paul - Join Christina Tobin, Chair of Free and Equal Elections Foundation, as she and Former U.S. Attorney David Katz join NewsNation to discuss what President ...
The Disorder Of Things

Call for Participation: Women, Peace and Security Research Network UK - Date: Tuesday 19 May 2026 Venue: Queen Mary University of London Format: A one-day event with 20-25 participants The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) UK Res...
Dandelion Salad

Marxist Scholar Michael Parenti Dies at 92 + When you had the Crisis of Capitalism, Fascism is an Attempt at a Final Solution to the Class Struggle - Michael died Saturday, January 24, 2026. My sincere condolences and deepest sympathies to all his family, friends and readers. He will be missed by many. —...
Daily Dot

Rumors that the Starbucks unicorn frappe will return are rampant on TikTok, but is it just more 2016 nostalgia? - [image: starbucks unicorn frappe] People on social media are expressing nostalgia for Starbucks’ discontinued Unicorn Frappe—and spreading rumors about i...
Reform Austin

A Farewell from Reform Austin - After much reflection, we’ve made the difficult decision to close down Reform Austin. Since our inception, our mission has been to provide Texans with re...
Reveal

How a US Citizen Was Scanned With ICE’s Facial Recognition Tech - [image: Two federal agents are standing in the sun wearing police vests. One agent is holding a cell phone.] Jesus Gutiérrez told immigration agents he wa...
ExChristian.Net

Turn off the Light - *By BlackFreethought ~ * Once I took off the mask and removed the veneer of Christianity during this second deconstruction, the world became a more scary...
Texas Monthly

The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 - [image: Tuesday Crossword Illustration] The post The Daily Crossword: November 18, 2025 appeared first on Texas Monthly.
American Prospect

More State (or Is It Just Trump?) Capitalism - Treasury’s Bessent says the feds will jump into pharmaceuticals and shipbuilding. California’s Newsom says the state has produced and will sell insulin at ...
Progressive Army

Acta de reunión de comisión directiva - Estimados socios buenos días: Les hacemos llegar en adjunto acta número 920 relacionada a la reunión de comisión directiva realizada el día miércoles 24 ...
Rio Grande Guardian

Smith: Border Days - Border chronicler Morgan Smith recaps a two-day trip he recently made to Mexico, including stops in Anapra, Juárez, and Palomas. The post Smith: Border D...
GreenSource DFW

Commercial clients lining up for quiet, all-electric landscaping service - *The Greener Good crew manicuring the grounds at Southlake’s Delta Hotel by Marriott in July. Photo courtesy of the Greener Good.* Aug. 8, 2025 At least...
Nina Illingworth

Journal: Courage, Cowardice, and Collaboration - Rashid Khalidi's recent stand against Columbia University's collaboration with Trump's fascist cultural agenda is important; more US educators should joi...
Stinque

Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 - The post Tom Lehrer, 1928-2025 appeared first on Stinque.
Bud Kennedy

Joe Rogan tells Texas Democrat James Talarico, ‘You need to run.’ Does he? | Opinion - If Texas Democrats need young talent, James Talarico is a start. The 36-year-old Texas House lawmaker from Round Rock is not far removed from his days as J...
ROAR Magazine

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Speak Freely (ACLU)

Live Coverage: Final SCOTUS Decision Day -
Eater Houston

The Best Hidden Gem Restaurants in Houston - [image: A person serves a matcha martini at Bar Doko.] Let Eater point you to some of the most underrated and under-the-radar restaurants in Houston. | Mi...
Ring of Fire

Trump Threatens Media Outlet Over Don Jr’s Comparison To Hunter Biden - Donald Trump Jr. has been crisscrossing the planet using his dad’s name, his name, of course, to get all of these business deals and put money in his poc...
Southeast Texas Record

Case activity for Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC vs Keidre Mccall on May 14 - The Harris County Civil Court reported the following activities in the suit brought by Jack Garland Jr. and Maa Wwarrs -Maa Vintage Park, LLC against All...
Save Buffalo Bayou

Cutting Forest for Stormwater Basins - Is that A Good Idea? The Value of Lost Ecosystem Services April 29, 2025 Digging out the land to create basins to hold stormwater and prevent flooding is a...
Texans For Public Justice

New Report & Tool to Track Flaring - The “Texas Flaring Project” released a website and a report today analyzing how the state’s oil and gas industry wastes valuable natural gas by flaring a...
Political Garbage Chute

Why Did The Secretary of Defense Text Me Dick Pics and Nuclear Launch Codes? - “I’m Prince of War now, got it? I’ll do what I want. Text what and who I want.” Well, that was a new one. I have to say in all my years covering politics...
Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Degrowth’s unhelpful contribution to global environmental challenges: A rejoinder to a critique of growth contingency - I write in response to the recent critique by Terry Leahy of my article ‘Beyond green growth, degrowth, post-growth and growth agnosticism’ in JAPE (94, ...
Polygraph (global fact-check)

Vatican: Francis stable, out of ‘imminent danger’ of death - The Vatican press office is changing the frequency of the pope’s health updates
Equality Texas

Remembering Sylvester Turner - Today, we mourn the sudden loss of Congressman Sylvester Turner. A lifelong Houstonian and dedicated public servant, Turner was a member of the Texas Hous...
The Reality-Based Community

Nhận định soi kèo Erzurumspor vs Pendikspor lúc 17h30 ngày 06/3/2025 - Tiếp tục với giải Hạng Nhì Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ, khi bước vào vòng 28, người hâm mộ sẽ được chứng kiến một trong những trận đấu hấp dẫn diễn ra giữa Erzurumspor và...
CPI's Danger in the Air

Public Integrity’s “40 Acres and a Lie” project is honored by the Philip Meyer Journalism Awards - [image: A collage illustration that pairs pictures of William T. Sherman with Trinity Church in Edisto, South Carolina. Overlaying Sherman is a snippet of ...
Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

Anti-Immigrant Group FAIR Taps Controversial Former Sheriff to Serve in Adviser Role - A law enforcement figure associated with the extremist “constitutional sheriff” ideology will serve as an adviser for the anti-immigrant hate group Federat...
New Progressive Alliance

2024 Annual Report - *2024 Annual Report* - Publishing in social media means publishing a reference in Facebook at Colorado Best Democracy, Greens Discuss the Issues, L...
Texas Watch

In the News: Insurance Crisis Hurting Texans - We have been updating you throughout the year on the insurance crisis gripping our state and our nation. Insurance companies have *hiked our rates beyon...
BEYONDbones

Winter Solstice | Final Sky Happenings of 2024 - Editor’s Note: Look to the sky as HMNS Astronomer talks winter solstice for the final sky happenings of 2024. Thank you for watching the stars alongside ...
Border/Lines

The immigration 'vibe shift'—11-19-24 - Immigration news, in context.
Robert Reich

How We Take Back the Supreme CourtWhere do you see yourself in... - *How We Take Back the Supreme Court* Where do you see yourself in 2060? What about your kids or grandkids? Will Donald Trump be affecting your life even ...
Grits for Breakfast

Grits publishes "Tulia" zine for 25th anniversary: Preorder now! - Until Jeff Frazier and the good folks at Mano Amiga in San Marcos reached out about their event Monday night, I had not realized it was the 25th anniversar...
Right Wing Watch

Right Wing Round-Up: One Really Violent Day - Marshall Cohen and Daniel Dale @ CNN: Fact check: 12 election lies Trump is using to set the stage to dispute a potential 2024 defeat Former President Do...
Dos Centavos

Ay Te Watcho, Houston - Well, if you’re reading this on this Labor Day, these words are being typed from Northern Colorado. After 26 years of living in Houston and 53 in Texas, it...
Morning Consult

Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels - The post Replicating Experimental Findings with Online Panels appeared first on Morning Consult.
TXElects

Consistency in Texas: Trump Maintains Lead Over Biden in Latest Polls - *By Jeff Blaylock – Founder & Senior Editor* *JUNE. 20, 2024* Stop me if you’ve heard this before. Former President Trump leads President Biden by 7 po...
CT's short stories and novelettes

Grape - “I can jump a ship there. Just get me in the city limits. I will take it from there.” “How many sapiens did you kill?” “Five. Why do you want to know?”...
The Intercept

In No Labels Call, Josh Gottheimer, Mike Lawler, and University Trustees Agree: FBI Should Investigate Campus Protests - The bipartisan duo also praised schools that brought in police to violently quell protests and connected the demonstrations to the TikTok ban. The post I...
The Stars Hollow Gazette

NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament 2024: Second Four Play Ins - This s the second night of the women’s Play-Ins.Here are last night’s winners and losers: Time Network Seed School Record Region Score Seed School Record R...
Shadowproof

Shadowproof Is Shutting Down - After eight years, we have decided that it is time to shut down Shadowproof, but that does not mean that the independent journalism that we fostered is c...
One People's Project

2023 Year End Campaign! - The time has come to ask for your help as we head along into what promises to be one busy 2024! 2023 Year End Campaign
Innocence Project

Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma - The post Perry Lott is Exonerated After 35 Years of Wrongful Conviction in Ada, Oklahoma appeared first on Innocence Project.
Latino Rebels

Neuro-Inclusivity, Belonging and Radical Hospitality - Latino Rebels Radio goes on the road for a live podcast recording at Mitchell College in New London, Connecticut. Host Julio Ricardo Varela welcomes seve...
FiveThirtyEight.com

What Americans Think Of The Biden Impeachment Inquiry - Welcome to Pollapalooza, our weekly-ish polling roundup. It’s officially impeachment season again. On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announc...
Tribune of the People

Tribune of the People was the news organ of a political cult called the “CR-CPUSA” and collapsed in March 2022 - Read about what happened here: https://maoistcultexposed.wordpress.com/ This website belonged to a political cult called the “Committee to Reconstitute the...
Caitlin Johnstone

CaitlinJohnstone.com Is Now At CaitlinJohnstone.com.au - Hello subscribers, As you may have noticed, our website at caitlinjohnstone.com has been reduced to a shuffle lately, suffering repeated 502 errors for rea...
So Far From Heaven (Jack Purcell, RIP)

Draw an Ask Old Jules card on YouTube - Hello everyone, I decided to upload videos of drawing one card at a time on YouTube. This will happen three times a week. If you want to go over and look, ...
Lawfare

UN Special Rapporteur Releases Guantánamo Report - On June 26, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism Fionnuala Ní Aoláin released her report following a technical visit ...
In These Times

How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe - Israeli surveillance technology is empowering antidemocratic governments to track journalists and human rights activists. Regulation is virtually nonexistent.
News Junkie

Mayotte Crisis: Putrid Leftover of France’s Imperialist and Colonialist Scrooge? - The cycle of empires It is not as if President Macron and his administration needed a new crisis to add to the turmoil of his second term in power. Unlike ...
DBC Green

Happy Art Car, Y'All! - (function(jQuery) {function init() { window.wSlideshow && window.wSlideshow.render({elementID:"840112064306859282",nav:"thumbnails",navLocation:"bottom",cap...
Buzzflash

Rebecca Solnit: "Forget Geoengineering. We Need To Stop Burning Fossil Fuels. Right Now." - The Guardian
Living Blue in Texas

TEXIT: The Conservative Movement To Turn Texas Into A White Ethnostate - Unpacking “Texit” and the potential consequences of secession. A few years ago, we wrote “QAnon Conspiracies And Neo-Confederate Beliefs Behind Texit Movem...
Eclectablog

Making democracy work for our environment – wsg Nayyirah Shariff & Sean McBrearty - Nayyirah Shariff on Twitter: @NayyirahShariff Flint Rising on Twitter: @FlintRising Flint Rising's website: FlintRising.com Sean McBrearty on Twitter: @Sea...
Echidne of the Snakes

Happy 2023 To All Of You - I have often come back here to try to write some sort of a conclusion to the years of activity on this site, but have not figured out what, exactly, to s...
VICE

Three UFOs Shot Down by US Weren't Chinese Spy Balloons: Biden - However, President Joe Biden did not say what the three objects were, saying the military is still searching for the debris.
Texas Moratorium Network

Senator Sarah Eckhardt Files Bill to Abolish Death Penalty - A State Senator we wrote asking to file a bill to abolish the death penalty has filed a bill to abolish the death penalty. So, we have a senate sponsor o...
Media Myth Alert

Taking stock: Top mythbusting posts of 2022 - Media Myth Alert directed attention periodically in 2022 to the appearance of well-known media-driven myths, those prominent tales about the news media tha...
Due Dissidence

Liz Truss Finally Made Neoliberalism Toxic - by Jack Carolan Liz Truss spent her childhood accompanying her father, a leftist University professor, on marches against the Thatcher government. It might...
Duffel Blog

Make-A-Wish kid gets 'Day 1 recycled' at Ranger school - “Rules are rules,” said a Ranger Instructor.
Strategic Culture Foundation

WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent About His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel - UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said no...
BillMoyers.com

PODCAST: Dr. Bandy Lee Saw It Coming – The Violence Foretold in Donald Trump’s Election - Our democracy has been eroding in tandem with the rise in inequality, says Dr. Lee. The Trump presidency is not really about Donald Trump the individual....
Downwinders at Risk

With Historic Rebuke, EPA Sends GAF Permit Back to Austin…and a Message to Company - When Janie Cisneros and her Singleton United contingent met with EPA Region Six Director Dr. Earthea Nance and her staff on June 1, one of the residents’ g...
Chicken Fried Politics

Symbolic solution in search of an actual problem - Support of 9 Southern Republicans for Respect for Marriage Act shows why Supreme Court isn’t about to ban same-sex marriage ♦By Rich Shumate, ChickenFriedP...
Pages of Victory

The Road to Hell -
The Contributor

34 Senate Republicans oppose even debating gun safety compromise bill - News Image: Every Democrat and 14 Republicans in the Senate voted to consider bipartisan compromise gun safety legislation. Category: Guns in America ori...
Bayou Brief

Tilly Snyder Is Missing Again - Wikipedia’s decision to permanently delete John K. Snyder’s page cannot erase the true story of one of the most eccentric politicians in Louisiana history ...
Washington Babylon

Sub to Our Stack! - [image: Sub to Our Stack!] Hey! We’re back! It’s been a while but *Washington Babylon* is back up and running. Read more @ Washington Babylon...
Talking Points Memo

Scott Pruitt, Yes That Scott Pruitt, Is Running For Senate - Nearly four years after he resigned from the Trump administration amid a cloud of scandal and profligate spending of taxpayer...
Liberal America

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Republicans’ Identity Crisis - This week, Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his long-anticipated, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. No sooner did this happen than Donald Trump–the...
Popehat

Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...
epic.org

EPIC, Coalition Urge FTC to Issue Rules Protecting Consumers Against Data Abuse and Discrimination - Today, EPIC and a coalition of 44 consumer advocacy, civil rights, and media democracy groups urged the Federal Trade Commission to initiate a rulemaking t...
Truthdig

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Malady

Capital’s profitability now depends on ‘lockdowns’, acute social enclosure, and ‘medical’ tyranny - * *This essay was originally posted in April 2021 (and regularly updated) on Medium.com but was censored in September and then put “under investigation”. H...
Freethought Now

FFRF’s Freethought Now Blog has moved! - FFRF has moved our blog, Freethought Now! Check out our new blog today.
Louis Proyect

The Future of this Blog - Update: this site has now returned to its free version at https://louisproyect.wordpress.com … i do not know how much longer https://louisproyect.org will ...
INSIDER - politics news

TikTok extremism exposed: over 1,000 videos found including Holocaust denial, white supremacy, and ISIS propaganda, according to new report - [image: TikTok] Summary List Placement New research released by a counter-extremism think tank found that over 1,000 TikToks featuring hate speech and e...
Houston Press

Simone Biles Also Withdraws From Individual All-Around in a Post-Karolyi Era - After her shocking withdrawal from the U.S. women’s gymnastics team finals on Tuesday due to mental health concerns, Houston’s own Simone Biles has now—per...
Dallas Observer

'Viruses Are Going to Virus': COVID-19 Infections Rise Among Vaccinated Texans - Several fully vaccinated Texas Democratic lawmakers have tested positive for COVID-19, becoming some of the most widely publicized instances of so-called "...
Progressives Everywhere

Ohio’s Gerrymandered Theocracy Exhibit the Stakes of Voting Rights - Inaction of voting rights will be very deadly
Anti-Media

Peer-Reviewed and Published: Adoption of Ivermectin to Combat COVID-19 is Justified - The study's authors conclude that "large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin."
Bad Attitudes

Big Government Handouts - Recently, Elon Musk beat out Jeff Bezos for a 2.9 billion contract from NASA to fly one of his magnificent exploding rocket ships to the moon. In true Am...
PBD - Progressive Blog Digest

46 - Joe Biden, the president of the United States. Not a perfect president, but the perfect president for these post-Trump times. Earnest, unpretentious, good-...
Latino Decisions

Alex Padilla, Latino Champion of Voter Access, New California US Senator - In a historic event, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla has been appointed as United States Senator by Governor Gavin Newsom. Secretary Padilla...
TomDispatch

Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, The Madness of War, American-Style - In choosing a title for his final, posthumously published book, the prominent public intellectual Tony Judt turned to a poem by Oliver Goldsmith, *The De...
Art Killing Apathy

Free Speech Is More Complicated Than You Think - By Eleanor Goldfield The truth is – words are dangerous. Words are the catalysts of all action – good or evil. To start with a cliché but solid example: ...
Defend our Movements

Assessing Tech: How We Know If It’s On Our Side - By Bex Hong Hurwitz, Tiny Gigantic Over the past months, technical research into privacy and security concerns with Zoom and Zoom’s actions in response hav...
Better Texas Blog

New Census Data Confirms Texas Needs to Equitably Invest in Anti-Poverty Programs - Looking for analysis of the new health insurance numbers released this week? Check out our blog here! Although median income and poverty rates improved ...
Texas Rural Voices

“IT’s” the RACISM, STUPID! - It is at the center of our national attention. And, justifiably so. It’s presence permeates our national psyche, whether we acknowledge it or not. We...
PERRspectives

On the Ground Update: Acting DHS Secretary Wolf Understates Portland Crisis - Over the past 24 hours, Acting Department of Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf has faced a firestorm of criticism for his over-the-top rhetoric and gra...
Austin 360

Neuron Garage - Neuron Garage Camp Expands to 12 Locations for Summer 2020! Austin-based day camp, Neuron Garage, is quickly gaining a loyal following as the Hands-On Bu...
Think 3 Institute

What is it about Trump? - *P*art of it is this: millions of people who'd never want Donald Trump to be their boss now feel that he has become, or is becoming, exactly that. Somethin...
IVN

Long Live the Crackpots! - Long Live the Crackpots! Those of us who had been part of and partners with the Perot rebellion knew that the official “branding” of Ross Perot was alrea...
Modern Democracy

Roberts’ Next Thicket?: The Coming One-Person, One-Vote Battle Over “How Much is Too Much” - Recently, Nick Stephanopoulos pointed out how Rucho was written as if constitutional racial vote dilution claims never existed. The same might also be said...
The Metaphor Project

Say: “Move America Forward?” - In the first Democratic presidential debate, Andrew Yang proposed a slogan, “Not left, not right, forward!” The next day I corrected it on Twitter to be “...
Truthout

Despite Shutdown, Trump Is Pushing Forward Plans to Drill in Arctic - With Trump, oil drilling takes priority over essential services like trash pickup in national parks.
Splinter

Someone threatened to set a University of Michigan student on fire for wearing a hijab. This must stop. - Steps away from the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, a stranger approached a student and threatened to set her on fire with a lighter, police ...

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